Midcentury Memories: The Anonymous Project
Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2019. Hardcover. 4to, pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket. Text in English, German, and French. Illustrated throughout in color. Book is very nearly Fine.
New Arrivals
The Curse of Lono
Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2005. Hardcover. 4to, white cloth, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w. Light wear to exterior includes shallow rubbing to tips, bumping to spine ends, and mild soiling to rear board. Abrasion to pages 92-93, affecting some text. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Uncommon.
Kimono Fashioning Culture
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo, teal cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w. Book and unclipped jacket have minimal shelfwear, with contents clean.
Charles Matton: Enclosures
Paris: Flammarion, 2011. Hardcover. Square 4to, pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket, as issued. Book is unread and still in publisher's shrink wrap.
The Ring of the Nibelung (illustrated)
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. 4to, black cloth in dust jacket. Text in English. Illustrated throughout in color. Book is very nearly Fine in like jacket.
McKeesport (Images of America: Pennsylvania) * This copy signed by Jim Brewster and McKeesport Heritage Center Volunteers
Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Illustrated throughut in b&w. Book is signed to half title page by then-mayor of McKeesport Jim Brewster and 10 volunteers from the McKeesport Heritage Center. Otherwise, contents remain clean. Mild shelfwear to wraps. Jim Brewster is now a Pennsylvania State Senator whose.....
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ca. 2005. Reprint. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 511pp., not illustrated. Book has slight bump to spine head, rubbing to wrap, binding tight, text has some red ink marginalia and underlining. No DJ.
Conrad Under Familial Eyes
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 281pp., not illustrated. Book has hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has rubbing, price written on bottom front flap.
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards, octavo, 410pp., not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Blue stamped gray cloth boards, octavo, 233pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Swift's Rhetorical Art: A Study in Structure and Meaning
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, octavo, 117pp., not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing to boards, hint of wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. No DJ...
Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 321pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book has hint of shelfwear to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ rubbed and toned, mild edgewear, front flap price clipped.
Rethinking the South: Essays in Intellectual History
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 271pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ has toning and rubbing, mild edgewear.
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1969. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 808pp., not illustrated. Book has mild sun to spine, gentle toning to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy
New York: Schocken Books, 1971. Hardcover. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 284pp., not illustrated. Book has mild edgewear, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild edgewear, rubbing.
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to, cloth-covered boards in dust jacket. Illustrated by author throughout in b&w. Bumping to rear corner of boards with contents clean. Unclipped jacket has shallow wear to tips and spine ends and mild waviness to top edge of front panel.
Postage Stamps and Their Collection: A Practical Guide to Philately for All Collectors
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1897. Hardcover. 8vo, brown hardcover with gilt lettering. Illustrated in b&w. Book has rubbing and wear to extremities, and mild waviness to rear board. Contents remain clean. Front inner hinge is strained, with chipping to front endpapers at gutter, and short tearing to early leaves.
The Papers Of A Critic Selected From The Writings Of The Late Charles Wentworth Dilke
Breinigsville, PA: Kessinger Publishing, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Facsimile of an 1875 edition (London: John Murray). Book has light wear to wraps, including creasing to rear cover. Contents remain clean.
Aldous Huxley's Hearst Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth, no dust jacket. Publisher's review copy, with related item tipped in. Mild shelfwear to book, with contents clean. Uncommon.
Right Here in Squirrel Hill: the Jonah Stone and Other Tales
Pittsburgh: Jackson Church Press, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, pebbled blue boards, no jacket, very good, light wear and darkening. Stories of Squirrel Hill, a Pittsburgh neighborhood with a large Jewish population, but this celebrates some of its Christian past in story form.
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Fosuta: Amerika no Kokoro [Stephen Foster's America, no. 8 in the Junior Music Library]
Tokyo: Ongaku no Tomosha, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Glossy boards in dust jacket, about fine but for owner's notation to endpaper. Illustrated, some in color. A young adult's book about Stephen Foster and the American scene of the mid 19th century. Uncommon, OCLC locates 2 copies: University of Pittsburgh &.....
Furi Taimu, 3: Free Time, Part 3
Tokyo: Nihon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, fine copy. Color photos of nude young women, hard to figure out ages, but probably age of consent. Approximately 100 pp. OCLC locates a single holding: National Diet Library, Japan.
Furi Taimu, 2: Free Time, Part 2
Tokyo: Nihon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, fine copy. Color photos of nude young woman, hard to figure out her age but we think she's of the age of consent. Approximately 100 pp. OCLC locates 4 holdings.
Historic Buildings of Centre County, Pennsylvania
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University; Keystone Books, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. 10.5 x 8.25 inches, cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket good with some light edgtwear and also spottiness and soil. 221 pp, illustrated.
Beyond Orpheus: Studies in Musical Structure
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket good with some edgewear and tears. 244 pp.